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• n  a political system governed by old men

• The country is a de facto gerontocracy that has failed to adapt to today's economic and demographic realities.
• Nowhere is that more true than in politics, where Italy's gerontocracy and unwritten party rules co-opt the young with the false promise that they should wait for a few years and .
• Matteo Renzi Nowhere is that more true than in politics, where Italy's gerontocracy and unwritten party rules co-opt the young with the false promise that they should wait for a .

News & Articles

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• The Best Hope for France’s Young? Get Out
  France is an overcentralized gerontocracy. To succeed, young people should leave the country and come home with new ideas.
  June 29, 2013 - New York Times

Quotes

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• Theodor Adorno in Independent
  These speculations weigh heavily on me, for I am a strange and ragged figure, patrolling the desperate margins of our culture, subjected on a daily basis to what Theodor Adorno called - apropos Beckett's Endgame - "the gerontocracy of late...